voluntary muscle

noun

, Anatomy.

muscle whose action is normally controlled by an individual's will; mainly skeletal muscle, composed of parallel bundles of striated, multinucleate fibers.

First recorded in 1780–90

No man can call himself educated until every voluntary muscle obeys his will.

He was conscious, he was breathing normally, his heart was beating; but not a voluntary muscle would obey his will!

Voluntary muscle loses quickly its contractility when a solution of potash is injected into its vessels.

This compound has an action on voluntary muscle causing gradual paralysis.

Take out a morsel on the slip of glass, and tease as directed for the voluntary muscle.

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